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- Title
Lactobacillus plantarum ccl gene is non-essential, arginine-repressed and codes for a conserved protein in Firmicutes.
- Authors
Arsène-Ploetze, Florence; Nicoloff, Hervé; Bringel, Françoise
- Abstract
Among proteins specifically found in most gram-positive bacteria of the phylum Firmicutes, conserved proteins of the family pfam06177-DUF988-COG4708 are of unknown function. The citrulline cluster-linked ( ccl) gene of Lactobacillus plantarum codes one such protein and is adjacent to the citrulline biosynthesis operon argCJBDF, a situation also found in Lactococcus lactis. This gene is well conserved among L. plantarum species, and 1 isolate out of 24 harbored two ccl copies. Northern hybridization with a ccl probe revealed two arginine-repressed transcripts with sizes corresponding to the predicted argCJBDF– ccl operon and the ccl gene alone. Transcription start sites of both transcripts were characterized. Four different 5′ ends were mapped at the argF–ccl intergenic region, resulting from either regulated transcription initiation or maturation of the transcripts. Transcriptional ccl– gusA gene fusion confirmed the promoter activity of the argF–ccl intergenic region. Thus, the ccl gene is arginine-repressed and transcribed both monocistronically and polycistronically in the argCJBDF-ccl operon. The ccl gene is not essential in L. plantarum, because a ccl gene deletion was obtained in strain CCM 1904. Although no functions were found in the tested laboratory conditions, the Ccl-like proteins may play a role in environmental conditions of life.
- Subjects
GRAM-positive bacteria; BACTERIA; PROTEINS; LACTOBACILLUS plantarum; LACTOBACILLUS; GENES
- Publication
Archives of Microbiology, 2005, Vol 183, Issue 5, p307
- ISSN
0302-8933
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00203-005-0774-9